The country’s birth rates have fallen for decades in part because of the one-child policy.
  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
    32·
    20 hours ago

    “Oh I hope my children grow up in an authoritarian dumpster fire. Rights are scary and I can’t be trusted with them.”

    • you, probably.
    • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comEnglish
      23·
      10 hours ago

      Or maybe somewhere where you don’t have to spend half of your salary paying rent? Like China.

      • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I laughed pretty hard reading this when Hong Kong’s subdivided flats (cage appartments) came to mind.

        You bring up an interesting topic. China has both housing affordability issues, and entire ghost cities at the same time.

        China’s command economy can accomplish amazing feats in little time, at the cost of efficiency and utility.